Imperial War Museum

Foreword Shortly after assuming the office of Prime Minister in May 1940, Winston Churchill visited the Cabinet War Rooms to see for himself what preparations had been made to allow him and his War Cabinet to continue working, if, as was widely expected, heavy enemy air raids on London were to make...

PREFACEjS3he Cabinet War Rooms are the surviving and most importantportion of the underground emergency accommodation pro-vided for Mr Churchill's Cabinet and its chief military advisers dur-ing the Second World War. It is fortunate indeed that this historicsite has remained more or less exactly as...